Publications by authors named "Ines Chelly"

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  • Spinal cavernomas represent about 5% of spinal vascular malformations, with intradural cases making up only 3% and often occurring intramedullary.
  • A 58-year-old woman experienced progressive neuralgia and extremity paresthesia; MRI indicated a C2-C4 lesion causing spinal cord compression.
  • After a midline laminectomy for tumor removal, the lesion was identified as a cavernoma, and follow-up MRI confirmed complete resection four months later.
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  • - A patient with Crohn's disease developed facial hyperpigmentation while being treated with adalimumab, a TNF-alpha inhibitor.
  • - The hyperpigmentation improved significantly after stopping the adalimumab treatment.
  • - Histopathological analysis indicates a postinflammatory process but the exact cause of the hyperpigmentation is still unknown.
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Primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), and autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) are distinct liver diseases. Cases combining PBC and PSC, are extremely rare. Here, we present a case of a 39-year-old woman with a history of colonic Crohn's disease treated with azathioprine.

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Background: Intracranial inflammatory pseudotumours (IPT) are rare entities that frequently lead to misdiagnosis with malignant lesions. The identification of these lesions is difficult, but important to avoid inadvertent iatrogenicity and to adjust therapeutic protocols.

Case Presentation: We report the case of a 30-year-old man who presented a single tonic-clonic seizure.

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Introduction And Importance: Spinal meningiomas are typically intradural lesions. Some may infiltrate the dura mater, thus exhibit direct extradural extension. Pure spinal epidural meningiomas are very rare.

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Introduction And Importance: Calcifying pseudoneoplasms of the neuraxis (CAPNON) are infrequent benign brain tumors. They demonstrate slow growth and are characterized by calcium deposits within the tumor tissue. CAPNONs are observed in the supratentorial compartment of the brain.

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Morphea is an auto-immune disease, and its association with other immune-mediated diseases should not come as a surprise. Dermatologists should be aware of its possible coexistence with severe systemic involvement.

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Urinary tract endometriosis (UTE) is a very rare but serious form of infiltrating endometriosis because of the risk of urinary tract obstruction and loss of renal function. We report the case of A 42-year-old female patient admitted for intense right back pain with lower urinary tract disorders. An abdomino-pelvic ultrasound was done showing right uretero-hydronephrosis.

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Rapp-Hodgkin syndrome (RHS) is a rare condition that is characterized by ectodermal dysplasia and palatal abnormalities. Palmoplantar keratoderma (PPK) is an unusual manifestation of hidrotic ED. Ulcerations on the palms are also not common in RHS.

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Necrolytic migratory erythema (NME) is a rare cutaneous paraneoplastic manifestation of glucagonoma. We report a case of a woman with a 6-year history of delayed diagnosis of glucagonoma. This case highlights the atypical clinical features of NME which makes the diagnosis difficult.

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Primary umbilical endometriosis is unusual clinical presentation of endometriosis. Its diagnosis can be challenging due to lack of knowledge. This condition should be listed in the differential diagnosis of umbilical disorders.

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Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) and histiocytofibroma (HF) are two rare fibrohistiocytic tumors, with some overlapping pathologic features. Immunohistochemistry is very useful in these cases. CD34 is a commonly used marker.

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Acitretin, indicated for generalized pustular psoriasis, was effective in concomitant classic Kaposi sarcoma.

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Introduction: Metastatic spread of urothelial bladder carcinoma (UBC) rarely involves the skin which is associated with a poor prognosis. We present a rare case of UBC with cutaneous metastases which is exceptional by its inflammatory clinical form.

Presentation Of Case: A 62-year-old male was diagnosed with a non-metastatic muscle invasive transitional cell bladder carcinoma invading the anterior wall of the rectum.

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Introduction: Meningiomas are tumors derived from arachnoid cells. More than 90% of cases have a benign clinical course and are classified as grade I according to the World Health Organization. A confrontation between radiologic findings and pathological examination is necessary to predict the grading of meningiomas.

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Introduction: Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm With Papillary-like Nuclear Features (NIFTP) is a tumor composed exclusively of follicles lined by cells having nuclear characteristics of papillary carcinoma. Morphological diagnosis is often difficult especially in the cases in which these nuclear abnormalities are focal.

Aim: To investigate the contribution of the immunohistochemical study with anti CD56 and anti cytokeratin 19 in the positive diagnosis of NIFTP.

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